1974 Wheat Program
Designed to Spur Output
Secretary of Agriculture, Earl
L. Butz, recently announced
details of the 1974 wheat program
which he said is designed to
encourage all out production,
according to John M. Phillips,
Chairman of the Pennsylvania
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Committee.
There will be no set aside
requirement for 1974. There will
be no conserving base
requirement for the four year life
of the Agriculture and Consumer
Protection Act of 1973.
New in the wheat program is
the target price feature. If the
average price for wheat is at or
above the $2.05 per bushel target
price, the producers will receive
no payment. If the price average
is below the target, the producer
will receive the difference bet
ween the target price and the 5
month average price received by
all farmers.
There will be no preliminary
payment. Any payment due will
Garni
Controlled Release
so different, it's patented!
ELMER SHREINER
T-A GOOD'S FEED MILL
R.D.I, New Providence, Pa.
Phone 717-786-2500
be paid after December 1,1974. If
the average price received by all
producers is under $2.05 per
bushel for the July through
November 1974 period, a
producer would be paid on an
amount of bushels determined by
multiplying the farm allotment
times the projected yield
established for the farm. The
projected yield represents the
potential production for the farm
as determined by the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation County Committee.
The allotment is set at 55.0
million acres. Thus, on the
average, each producer’s
allotment in 1974 will be about
three times that of his 1973
allotment. This allotment
represents the number of har
vested acres of wheat, based on
the estimated domestic average
yield, which would result in
production equal to estimated
domestic and export disap
pearance in the 1974-75
IT'S HERE
A Nutrena Feeds
SERVICE YOU CAN RELY ON
marketing year. This allotment’s
sole purpose is for making
payments to producers in the
event the 5 month average price
received by farmers is less than
the target price.
The total amount of payments a
person may receive under one or
more of the 1974 Wheat, Feed
Grain and Upland Cotton
Programs may not exceed
$20,000.
Loans will be available to
producers on their 1974 crop
wheat at a national average of
$1.37 per bushel, an increase of 12
cents over 1973 crop loans.
The Act terminated on June 30,
1973, the requirement that
processors purchase certificates
valued at 75 cents per bushel on
each bushel of wheat processed
for human domestic con
sumption.
Wheat allotments may be
preserved by growing any non
conserving crop, or conserving
crop used for hay or grazing.
CIS
CARL J. SMITH
IS
THE SAFER,
MORE
EFFICIENT
LIQUID
SUPPLEMENT:
TERRITORY MANAGER
R.D.I, Box 336 A
Myerstown, Pa. 17067
Phone 717-866-5689
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 8,1973
Pennsylvania farmers should
be planning wheat income from
production in 1974, Mr. Phillips
said. There will be no set aside
payments to replace sale of
wheat in 1974, the Chairman
added.
For Lancaster County, the
29,974 acre allotment represents
a 30 percent increase over last
year, according to Dorothy Neel,
director of the county ASCS of
fice. Allotments will be mailed to
all farmers around September 10.
Wish I’d Said
That & %g>
✓ -vl
“Keep up the competitive
spirit—when competition
steps out monopoly moves
in.” —Mrs. Gary Hiott, The
Pickens (S.C.) Sentinal.
“Whenever there is a crisis
of some kind, the only way
Congress can figure to solve
it is to either levy a new tax
or appropriate umteen mil
lion (or billion) dollars.”—
Bill Epler, Brewery Gulch,
Bisbee (Ariz.) Gazette.
lowa No. I
Now In Farm
Population
lowa, Minnesota, and Illi
sois now have more farm res
idents than any other states
in the nation.
This was brought out in a
recent U S Department of
Agriculture study spanning
the decades from 1970 back
to 1910
The report marked the first
time in USDA records that a
Southern state did not have
the largest number of farm
residents North Carolina
and Texas previously were
the heaviest farm-populated
states By 1970, they fell to
fifth and fourth places, re
spectively
The decade of the 60’s con
tinued the longtime down
ward trend in the number of
persons living on farms, dip
ping from 15 7 million in
1960 to 9 7 million in 1970
Biggest drop was in the
South, where farm popula
tion decreased by nearly half
The loss principally resulted
from cotton farming’s mech
anization and near-abandon
ment of the share-tenant sys
tem of farming, the report
said
In addition, non-farm areas
with higher employment op
portunities lured a large
number of farm residents
The South’s black population
decreased by well over 60 per
cent during the ’6os
North and South Dakota led
all other states in their per
centage of population on
farms Both had about 1 out
of every 4 residents living on
farms in 1970.
Only 13 states in the nation
had a farm population that
accounted for 10 per cent or
more of their total This was
m sharp contrast to 1920
the first year state data be
came available —when 11 of
the 48 states had a majority
of residents living on farms
Thirty-two states had a fourth
or more of their residents on
farms in 1920
Local NFU
Members
On Fly-In
A dozen National Farmers
Union members from Lancaster
and Chester Counties flew out of
Lancaster Municipal Airport last
Tuesday aboard the Farmers
Union Travel Club’s Convair 580
They were part of a 100-member
contingent bound for Idaho m an
effort to find more members for
NFU. A similar trip last year
resulted in the enrollment of over
500 new members in six mid
westem states.
Lancaster County participants
include: Clair Amand, Lititz
RD3; J. Harold ' Esbenshade,
Manheim RD2; Arthur Gray bill,
Stevens RDI; John Huber, Valley
Rd., Neffsville; Ron Kline, Lititz
RDS; Forney Longenecker, Lititz
RD3; and Roy K. Steffy,
Manheim RD2.
From Chester County: Sabitor
Dazzolin, Landenburg RDI;
Thomas 0. Moran, Oxford RD2;
Cox W. Shepherd, Lincoln
University; Walter W. Shepherd,
Oxford RD2; and Simon Z. Zook,
Oxford RD2.
BUTLER
AGRI-PRODUCTS
Everything you need—from one specialized
source. Planning assistance, fast construc
tion, single source responsibility, efficient
service.
455™* M.K.HOKE
ESTATES
110 So Mam St
Manheim, Pa.
11